To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
Elizabeth Cady StantonIf we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.
Elizabeth Cady StantonIt requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.
Elizabeth Cady StantonI decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton